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A comprehensive introduction to evolutionary biology, covering the history, process, and relevance of evolution. Learn about the evidence, mechanisms, and critiques of evolution, as well as its impact on humans and society.
- An Introduction
- 1 Biological Evolution: The Beginnings of the Story
- 2 Reviewing the Evidence for Evolution
- Contents
- 4 Natural Selection and Adaptive Change
- 5 Evolution and Development
- 6 The Origins of Biodiversity
- Contents
- 8 The History and Origins of Life on Earth
- 9 Molecules and Evolution
- 10 Human Evolution
- Preface
- Biological Evolution as its title.
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- Acknowledgements
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Biological evolution, the theory of natural selection and of common descent, is a triumph both of human reasoning and scientific undertaking. The biological discipline of evolution contains both a chronicle of human endeavour and the story of life on Earth. This book is concerned with living forms and how they developed from ‘simple and unpromising...
The Development of Evolution as a Science The Years before Publication of Origin of Species So, What Is Evolution? Change and Species Formation Natural History and Classification Exploring the Development and Progress of Life on Earth The Galapagos Islands and Darwin’s Finches: A Case Study The Finches Classification and the Galapagos Finches Darwi...
Homology and Comparative Anatomy Embryology Vestigial Organs The Fossil Record Fossils and Phylogeny Biogeography Observational and Experimental Evidence
Genes in Populations Variation within Populations Variation between Populations Population Genetics
Natural and Artificial Selection Selection in Populations Polymorphism Heterozygote Advantage Directional Selection and Local Adaptation Sexual Selection Genetic Drift and the Adaptive Landscape The Unit of Selection
Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo) The Epigenetic Landscape Homeosis Hox Genes The Body Axes and Segmentation The Dorsoventral Axis Functional Analogy The History of Hox Genes The Divergence of Body Plans Homeotic Genes and Control of Development in Higher Plants Evolutionary Developmental Repatterning
Species Concepts Isolating Mechanisms Speciation Speciation through Polyploidy Parapatric Distribution, Speciation and Hybrid Zones Sympatric Speciation The Explosive Speciation of Cichlids
vii Phenetics Cladistics Molecular Taxonomy Nomenclature Classification and Big Data
What Is Life: Characteristics of Living Things Origins of Life The First Organisms Origins of the Eukaryotes and the Evolution of Sex Multicellularity and the Higher Taxa The Evolution of Animals The Evolution of Plants Movement onto Land
The Early Earth Replication and the RNA World Gene Trees DNA and RNA Phylogenies Rates of Molecular Evolution Molecular Clocks Phylogenomics and Transposable Elements Lateral Gene Transfer Genomics and ‘Big Science’
Looking at Mammals Becoming Human Palaeobiology and the Human Lineage Modern Humans Evidence from the Human Genome Human Success Human Cultural Evolution Are We Still Evolving?
A textbook is more than a simple source account or provider of information. We live in an information age where factual description and scientific explanation are readily available on-line. And so, the textbook (particularly an introductory text such as this) should also convey ideas, stories, context and controversies as well as fulfilling its pri...
Biological evolution, the theory of natural selection and of common descent, is a triumph both of human reasoning and scientific endeavour. And although, for most of us, the story begins with Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the mid-
nineteenth century, the idea of biological change over time was not new. Through primitive animism and the later philosophies of the ancient world, the history of evolutionary thought takes in several millennia and several different world views. The Age of Enlightenment, including the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centurie...
The book owes much to past students, friends, family and colleagues, in particular initial conversations with Dr Alec Panchen. My own thinking on the ideas and concepts of evolution has also developed profoundly through tutoring the next generation of biologists and biology teachers both at Warwick and Durham Universities. I acknowledge, with grati...
A textbook that covers the main topics and themes of biological evolution, from the origins of life to human evolution. It uses a historical narrative, evidence-based approach and contemporary examples to explain the process and product of evolution.
Jun 5, 2014 · Understanding Evolution is intended for undergraduate students in the life sciences, biology teachers or anyone wanting a basic introduction to evolutionary theory.
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Jan 1, 2014 · PDF | In one of the most remarkable understatements in the history of science, Charles Darwin wrote about his theory of evolution by natural selection... | Find, read and cite all the research...
All life evolved from one or few simple kinds of organisms. Species evolve from pre-existing varieties by means of natural selection. The birth of a species is gradual and of long duration. Higher taxa (genera, families etc.) evolve by the same mechanisms as those responsible for the origin of species.
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with clarity and thoughtful reasoning. Topics discussed include evolution in the public sphere, evolution and religion, the conceptual obstacles to under-standing evolution, the development of Darwin s theory, the most important evolutionary concepts, as well as evolution and the nature of science. Under-standing Evolution
